random things you find road/trail side?

Hour blast on the road bike tonight, and found a nice adjustable spanner at the side of the road. Its obviously been there a while as was well covered in gutter crap. Cleaned up a treat and works great.

Love this thread. I found a snap on socket spanner, an old rusty adjustable spanner that i take out with me when I'm on the fixie and a blackburn pump by the road over the years. Thought i found a set of white oakley radars but thwy turned out to be just cheap no name jobbies. On the trailside I seem to find a huge amount of anodized red rock shox rebound adjusters.

I dropped a bottle on one of the first jumps on lower cliff over chase and when i went back to collect it i notices there were loads of computers and bottles that had fallen to the same fate.

I accidentally left the oil cap off my motorbike, 45 mins into the a ride and I felt a wet leg where the oil was spraying up out of the filler hole. I thought what I need is one of these:
30 seconds later I found one in a layby...

When I was about 12, I found a Bowie knife in its sheath. Took it to the police, 6 months later got a call to collect it as it was unclaimed. although my dad had to go with me cos I was a minor, they still happily handed it over....

Not quite in line with title but this summer, playing in a stream in France with my son, we noticed a 10 Euro note floating down the stream so we grabbed it. a couple of minutes later another two 10 Euro notes also appeared so we got those too. No sign of any one further up stream.

There was a trail in Thetford (in the days before it became popular)when I would frequently find erm....ladies undergarments and hosiery. It was generally on Sunday mornings so I guess the 'action' was taking place on Saturday evening.

Other than that....a tenner just blowing about on a cycle trail. There was no one else in sight, I hadn't passed anyone coming the other way so I claimed it.

Gloves....hundreds of them. Probably off lorries.One roadie I used to ride with would religiously gather them all up and take them home. I have no idea what he did with so many gloves but he was one of those roadies who was 'careful' with him money!

Early Sunday road ride I was dropping down duffield bank and just missed running over a lacy black thong in the middle of the road. Should have gone back up the hill to collect it, could have been a great bug net for my cycling helmet

Found a 2ft glitter ball on the South Downs a few years back. It was in the middle of a field quite a way from any car parks etc so someone must have carried it there. God only knows what they were hoping to do with it?!?!

Once saw an alien in Stanmer woods around 9.30 on a night ride. Well I think it was an alien! There was a massive roar as it appeared but it looked more like a tall thin human like being shrouded in a cloud with a bright light emmiting from it. The light moved away from the cloud fairly quickly before i could get a good look at it and the cloud dissapeared after a few minutes................

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I am always more surprised by the random lumps of large metal bits ( car/lorry)at the roadside ,then no broken down vehicle anywhere

I rode past a whole leaf spring assembly. Not just one leaf, but the whole thing. Must have been off a large vehicle too, as it was quite sizeable. Does make you wonder how these things just fall off, unless it fell off a scrap van's load or something.

The ones that freak me out are the suitcases full of clothes- generally open with the contents spilled a little. Seen that three four times at various points around the country. I can't help but worry about the owner! I'm guessing there's most likely a sad story attached to that